Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
A RARE WUCAI 'BIRD AND FLOWER' LOBED JAR WANLI MARK AND PERIOD | 明萬曆 五彩花鳥瑞果紋瓜菱式小罐 《大明萬曆年製》款
Auction Closed
November 6, 06:16 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A RARE WUCAI 'BIRD AND FLOWER' LOBED JAR
WANLI MARK AND PERIOD
明萬曆 五彩花鳥瑞果紋瓜菱式小罐 《大明萬曆年製》款
each side painted with bird and butterflies around peach boughs alternating with flowering peonies, all between a quatrefoil panel enclosing a floral sprig encircling the foot and a border of stylised floral roundel at the shoulder, the neck collared with a band of classic scroll, the base with a six-character mark within a double circle in underglaze blue
Height 14.5 cm, 5¾ in.
Compare a blue and white jar of the same lobed shaped and similarly painted with alternating panels of birds and butterflies and flowering peonies, sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, 5th and 6th November 1996, lot 756. Another jar of this unusual lobed form is illustrated in Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Pittsburgh, 1990, cat. no. 1.